Mr. President: Please do not blink now. The Congressional Republicans are playing a potentially cataclysmic game of chicken. They can taste the victory of imposing fundamental, ideological change on what this country stands for, in the guise of concern for a deficit, one they built in the past 12 years. Please do not give into their demands. Do not allow them to turn us into a country where the middle class is thrown to the winds, the wealthy and corporations shirk all societal responsibility, and shameless ideologues get away with demeaning the President of the United States.

Respectfully,
Kenneth J. Hirsh